Send Away The Tigers - Microsoft Store Send Away The Tigers 2007 • 11 songs • Rock • Indie / Alternative • Columbia Like many long-term relationships, Manic Street Preachers benefited from some time apart, as their seventh album, Send Away the Tigers, makes plain. Arriving on the heels of 2006 solo albums from both singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield and lyricist/bassist Nicky Wire , Send Away the Tigers finds the group recharged and revitalized, achieving the widescreen grandeur of Everything Must Go but infusing it with a harder rock edge that may not be as furious as their earliest work, but is no less committed. This surging sense of purpose was conspicuously absent on the Manics ' previous albums, which grew increasingly mannered in their attempts at majestic pop, culminating in the pleasant but too soft Lifeblood. It's hard to call Tigers soft -- it thunders even in its quietest moments, and when strings or keyboards are brought in, they're drowned out by guitars.

This doesn't sound like a desperate measure; it sounds like recommitment on the part of the Manics , especially since they haven't abandoned the melodic skills they've honed over the past decade. They've merely melded them to muscular yet mature rock & roll. It's that commitment to hard rock that makes Send Away the Tigers bracing upon its initial listen, but what makes it lasting is the songs, which may lack anthems on the level of "A Design for Life," but they're something better: they're small-scale epics, roiling with drama and coiled with tension, flirting with being overblown but kept grounded by the group's reclaimed righteousness and newfound sense of control. That leanness applies to the album overall as well -- where every Manics record since Everything Must Go grew increasingly over-stuffed, this has no flab, and its ten songs have a relentless momentum. It's still pretty bombastic -- the Manics were never about subtlety -- but the sweeping gestures are delivered with a sense of efficiency that makes Send Away the Tigers never seem heavy-handed, which is something that even their best albums often are.

So, this isn't merely a return to form, then -- it's also a welcome progression from a band that only a couple of albums back seemed stuck in a rut with no way out. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Send Away the Tigers - Manic Street Preachers | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic Manic Street Preachers google+ AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Like many long-term relationships, Manic Street Preachers benefited from some time apart, as their seventh album, Send Away the Tigers , makes plain. Arriving on the heels of 2006 solo albums from both singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield and lyricist/bassist Nicky Wire , Send Away the Tigers finds the group recharged and revitalized, achieving the widescreen grandeur of Everything Must Go but infusing it with a harder rock edge that may not be as furious as their earliest work, but is no less committed. This surging sense of purpose was conspicuously absent on the Manics ' previous albums, which grew increasingly mannered in their attempts at majestic pop, culminating in the pleasant but too soft Lifeblood .

It's hard to call Tigers soft -- it thunders even in its quietest moments, and when strings or keyboards are brought in, they're drowned out by guitars. This doesn't sound like a desperate measure; it sounds like recommitment on the part of the Manics , especially since they haven't abandoned the melodic skills they've honed over the past decade. They've merely melded them to muscular yet mature rock & roll. It's that commitment to hard rock that makes Send Away the Tigers bracing upon its initial listen, but what makes it lasting is the songs, which may lack anthems on the level of "A Design for Life," but they're something better: they're small-scale epics, roiling with drama and coiled with tension, flirting with being overblown but kept grounded by the group's reclaimed righteousness and newfound sense of control. That leanness applies to the album overall as well -- where every Manics record since Everything Must Go grew increasingly over-stuffed, this has no flab, and its ten songs have a relentless momentum.

It's still pretty bombastic -- the Manics were never about subtlety -- but the sweeping gestures are delivered with a sense of efficiency that makes Send Away the Tigers never seem heavy-handed, which is something that even their best albums often are. So, this isn't merely a return to form, then -- it's also a welcome progression from a band that only a couple of albums back seemed stuck in a rut with no way out. Track Listing BBC - Music - Review of Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers Talia Kraines 2007 They emerged as eyeliner-daubed punks and grew into Britpop royalty, but recently things have cooled off for Wales's most successful band. The underappreciated Lifeblood was scorned by critics and fans alike but now, after Nicky and James took a breather with solo projects, the beige is gone, and the sun is back in the Manics hearts. Send Away The Tigers is not only a return to form, but the best album they’ve made since the mid-90s. The overriding feeling here is one of grandiosity. Big sweeping choruses evoke the time when the Manics were the biggest band in the country.

“Your Love Alone Is Not Enough” sings in the first blossoms of springtime with a perfect radio friendly hook and flashbacks of “You Stole The Sun From My Heart.” Teaming up with The Cardigans Nina Persson, it’s a utterly sweet sounding song but with tellingly bittersweet lyrics. ‘’Underdogs’’ swaggers with confidence as James Dean Bradfield’s distinctive voice rings out a call to the band’s traditional fanbase – ‘This ones for the freaks, for you’re all so beautiful’. Simple yet effective, the Wire penned ‘’The Second Great Depression’’ builds from a slightly plodding chorus into a majestic chorus akin to the greatest songs from Everything Must Go but it’s the silly, almost cute ‘’Autumn Song’’ that would get even a Manics hater waving their hands about wildly. Layered vocals and soaring strings create a chorus that even Queen would be jealous of. Silly as “Autumn Song” might be, ‘‘Rendition’s’’ reminds us that MSP are a band with a political conscience.

From the strong military guitar solos through to lyrics like ‘the CIA will remain invisible’, the songwriting on songs like this and the glammy ''Imperial Bodybags'' show the band have lost none of their convictions. It might have guitars but Send Away The Tigers is a brilliant pop record. Intelligent yet accessible, every chorus is intentionally bold and sounds like the band are enjoying themselves. This isn’t a half-arsed attempt, as Nicky himself said,’“I realised that The Manics had lost that element of fabulous disaster... And on this album, we've gone back to source’. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. If you choose to use this review on your site please link back to this page. Tracks 1 Send Away the Tigers 2 Underdogs 3 Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 4 Indian Summer 5 The Second Great Depression 6 Rendition 8 I’m Just a Patsy 9 Imperial Bodybags 10 Winterlovers / Working Class Hero Clips taken from original discs may contain strong language.

Manic Street Preachers | New Music And Songs | Manic Street Preachers About Manic Street Preachers Dressed in glam clothing, wearing heavy eyeliner, and shouting political rhetoric, the Manic Street Preachers emerged in 1991 from their hometown of Blackwood, Wales, as self-styled "Generation Terrorists." Fashioning themselves after the Clash and the Sex Pistols, the Manics were on a mission, intending to restore revolution to rock & roll at a time when Britain was dominated by trancey shoegazers and faceless, trippy acid house. Their self-consciously dangerous image, leftist leanings, crunching hard rock, and outsider status made them favorites of the British music press and helped them build a rabidly dedicated following. For much of the band's early career, it was impossible to separate the rhetoric from the music and even from the members themselves -- the group's image was forever associated with lyricist/guitarist Richey James carving the words "4 Real" into his arm during an early interview. As the British pop music climate shifted toward Brit-pop in the wake of Suede, the Manics didn't achieve fame, but they did have notoriety.

Legions of followers emerged, including many bands that formed the core of the short-lived "new wave of new wave" movement. But as the group climbed toward stardom, the story didn't get simpler -- it got weirder. James' behavior became increasingly bizarre, culminating on the group's harrowing 1994 album The Holy Bible. Early in 1995, James disappeared, leaving no trace of his whereabouts. The remaining trio carried on with 1996's Everything Must Go, the album that established them as superstars in England, yet that came at the expense of the arrogant, renegade gender-bending and revolutionary rhetoric that had earned them their initial fan base. It was a bizarre, unpredictable journey for a group that once proclaimed that all bands should break up after releasing one album. James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitar), Nicky Wire (born Nick Jones; bass), Sean Moore (drums), and Flicker (rhythm guitar) formed Betty Blue in 1986. Within two years' time, Flicker had left the band and the group had changed its name to the Manic Street Preachers.

In the summer of 1988, a fellow student at Swansea University, Richey James (born Richey Edwards), who had previously been the group's driver, joined the band as rhythm guitarist. They began recording demos, eventually releasing the single "Suicide Alley" in August. "Suicide Alley" boasted a cover replicating that of the Clash's first album, which indicated the sound of the group at the time -- equal parts punk and hard rock. A year after the single's release, NME gave it an enthusiastic review, citing James' press release -- "We are as far away from anything in the '80s as possible." Indeed, the Manics were one of the key bands of the early '90s, and their career didn't get rolling until 1991. The New Art Riot EP appeared in the summer of 1990, followed by a pair of defining singles -- "Motown Junk" and "You Love Us" -- in early 1991 on Heavenly Records. The singles and the Manics' incendiary live shows, where they wrote slogans on their shirts, created a strong buzz in the music press, which only escalated in May.

James gave an interview with Steve Lamacq for NME in which Lamacq questioned the group's authenticity; after an argument, James responded by carving the words "4 Real" on his arm. The incident became a sensation, attracting numerous magazine articles, as well as a major-label contract with Sony. Many observers interpreted the action as a simple stunt, but over the next few years it became clear that the self-mutilation was the first indication of James' mental instability. "Stay Beautiful" was the Manics' first release for Sony, and it climbed into the British Top 40 late in the summer of 1991, followed early in 1992 by a re-recorded "You Love Us," which peaked in the Top 20. By the time they released their much-hyped debut album, Generation Terrorists, in February 1992 -- a record the band claimed would outsell Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction -- they had already cultivated a large and devoted following, many of whom emulated their glammy appearance and read the same novels and philosophers the group name-dropped.

The Manics had been claiming that they would disband following the release of their debut, yet it became clear by the fall, when a non-LP cover of "Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)" became their first Top Ten hit, that they would continue performing. Nicky Wire and Richey James had become notorious for their banter throughout the British music press, and while it earned them countless articles, it also painted the group into a corner. Comparatively polished and mainstream compared to its predecessor, Gold Against the Soul, the group's second album, appeared in the summer of 1993 to mixed reviews. Shortly after the release of Gold Against the Soul, the Manics' support began to slide as the group began to splinter amidst internal tensions, many of them stemming from James. Nicky Wire ran into trouble over on-stage remarks about R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe dying of AIDS, but Richey James was in genuine trouble. Suffering from deepening alcoholism and anorexia, James entered prolonged bouts of depression, highlighted by incidents of self-mutilation -- most notoriously at a concert in Thailand, when he appeared with his chest slashed open by knives a fan gave him.

Early in 1994, he entered a private clinic, and the band had to perform a number of concerts as a trio. James' mental illness surfaced on the group's third album, The Holy Bible. Reportedly recorded in a red-light district in Wales, The Holy Bible was a bleak, disillusioned record that earned considerable critical acclaim upon its late-summer release in 1994. Although the Manics' critical reputation was restored and James was playing with the band, even giving numerous interviews with the press, all was not well. Prior to the American release of The Holy Bible and the band's ensuing tour, James checked out of his London hotel on February 1, 1995, drove to his Cardiff apartment, and disappeared, leaving behind his passport and credit cards. Within the week he was reported missing and his abandoned car was found on the Severen Bridge outside of Bristol, a spot notorious for suicides. By the summer, the police had presumed he was dead. Broken, but not beaten, the remaining Manics decided to carry on as a trio, working the remaining lyrics James left behind into songs. The Manic Street Preachers returned in December 1995 opening for the Stone Roses.

In May 1996, they released Everything Must Go, which was preceded by the number two single "A Design for Life." Their most direct and mature record to date, Everything Must Go was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and the Manics became major stars in England. Throughout 1996, the band toured constantly, and most U.K. music publications named Everything Must Go Album of the Year. Despite their growing success, several older fans expressed distress at the group's increasingly conservative image, yet that didn't prevent the album from going multi-platinum. Everything Must Go didn't just go multi-platinum -- it established the Manics as superstars throughout the world. Everywhere except America, that is. The album received a belated release in the U.S., appearing in August of 1996, and the group attempted an American tour, opening for Oasis. It should have led to increased exposure, but a blowup between the Gallaghers led to Oasis canceling the entire tour, leaving the Manics at square one. They returned to the U.K. and toured, receiving a number of awards at the end of the year.

They didn't deliver their much-anticipated follow-up, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, until August of 1998. The album was another blockbuster success in the U.K., Europe, and Asia, but it didn't receive a release in America, since the Manics were in the process of leaving Epic in the U.S. For a while, there was simply no interest in the Manics by American labels, but another multi-platinum album and numerous awards in Britain revived interest. The band signed with Virgin, which issued This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours in the U.S. during June 1999 -- nearly a year after its initial release. Know Your Enemy followed in 2001, although it was not well received, and the band moved to Sony for British distribution of 2004's Lifeblood. Both vocalist/guitarist James Dean Bradfield and bassist Nicky Wire followed this release with solo albums, and then reconvened in 2007 to record the edgier, punk-influenced Send Away the Tigers with producer Dave Eringa. After its release, the band quickly set to work on another album, using Richey James' abandoned lyrics as inspiration.

"All 13 songs on the new record feature lyrics left to us by Richey," the Manics wrote on their website in early 2009. "The brilliance and intelligence of the lyrics dictated that we had to finally use them." Titled Journal for Plague Lovers, the album was recorded on analog tape by veteran engineer Steve Albini and released that May. Postcards from a Young Man, the band's tenth studio album, followed in 2010. After releasing a compilation called National Treasures: The Complete Singles in the fall of 2011, the Manics released a super-deluxe 20th Anniversary edition of Generation Terrorists in 2012. Meanwhile, the band plugged away in the studio, working on a ludicrously ambitious project tentatively titled 70 Songs of Hatred and Failure. At one point they despaired of simply having written too much material, before hitting on the idea of releasing two very different albums.

The first, a folky, almost entirely acoustic, emotionally raw effort entitled Rewind the Film, appeared in the fall of 2013, and the second, the "spiky" and Krautrock-inspired Futurology, was slated for May 2014. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi Music & Film Reviews | NME.COM Product: Manic Street Preachers NME has learned to anticipate new Manic Street Preachers albums with the same dread and suspicion with which one might look forward to a colonoscopy. Reviewing the band’s last album – the underwhelming ‘Lifeblood’ – in 2004, we had the temerity to suggest that it was something other than an unimpeachable masterpiece, resulting in a barrage of hate mail, death threats and computer viruses that had us considering emergency facial surgery before walking the streets again. Three years on, however, and we stand by our convictions; it’s been a solid, decade-long wait for Nicky Wire and co to deliver something as vital and vibrant as ‘Everything Must Go’, and an even longer wait for the bilious, misanthropic rage of ‘The Holy Bible’ to be repeated.

In the interim there’s been sanitised arena rock (‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’), eclectic, well-intentioned failures (‘Know Your Enemy’), the stale sound of a band putting their feet up and embracing their own middle-aged spread (the aforementioned ‘Lifeblood’) and a spate of solo oddities, but little in the way of the kind of ball-hair-tingling, punk-rock majesty that made them so special in the first place. Well, bugger us gently with a ragman’s trumpet if the wait would appear to be over at long last. ‘Send Away The Tigers’ is easily the best thing the band have released since 1996. Concise and focused, bristling with political ire and with unabashedly lowbrow salutes to the trio’s guiltiest musical pleasures (Guns N’Roses, Aerosmith, ELO for fuck’s sake), the Manics are far healthier-sounding than any band on their eighth album and third decade of existence has any right to. It is, quite frankly, special. And that’s something we never thought we’d be able to write about a new Manics album ever again.

Kicking off with the title track, described by Nicky Wire as, “‘All You Need Is Love’ played by Guns N’Roses” but sounding far more like The Who gleefully defaming the national anthem, it’s a magisterial couple of minutes that references everything from the ‘liberation’ of Iraq to comedian Tony Hancock’s rampant alcoholism. From the off, it’s clear that Manics have rediscovered the element of “fabulous disaster” that was lost in the safety bubble of mainstream success, and the genuine shock of how brilliant it all sounds is weirdly disarming. Even better still is lead single ‘Your Love Alone Is Not Enough’, a sugar-coated call-and-response pop gem with a cynical heart which hints at the shadow still cast over them by Richey Edwards’ disappearance. If it’s a morose point to linger on, however, it doesn’t show on record. For the first time in longer than we care to remember, the Manics sound like they’re having fun. ‘…Tigers’ is the sound of a band who have accepted themselves and learned to embrace and enjoy it.

By turns wantonly dumb – the glam-metal riot of ‘Underdogs’ or ‘Autumnsong’’s unapologetic FM rock chorus – and incisively intelligent, this is Manics in their comfort zone, and rarely have they sounded so much like, well, themselves. They’re guttersnipe punks clutching at Camus and oiky gobshites who are unafraid of their own overachievement. It’s just taken them a long time to realise that this is not to their detriment. At various points they even appear to lightheartedly reference themselves, from ‘Your Love Alone…’’s lyrical nod to 1999’s ‘You Stole The Sun From My Heart’ to the gorgeous ‘Indian Summer’’s unmistakable musical similarity to ‘Everything Must Go’. At just 10 songs and 38 minutes, there’s none of the filler that can crop up on Manics albums – everything, from James Dean Bradfield’s vocals to Wire’s politically charged lyrics, is operating at the nth degree.

‘I’m Just A Patsy’ – which quotes perennial fall-guy Lee Harvey Oswald – and the snarling boogie-punk racket of ‘Imperial Bodybags’ tick the requisite boxes of social relevance. Indeed, Iraq, 9/11 and the fallout from them, are themes that permeate the album. But ‘Send Away The Tigers’ is a record more about mood than any sort of agenda. It’s a euphoric, anthemic acceptance of self – the eureka! moment of a band realising what makes them so special and not feeling the need to shirk from it. Manic Street Preachers really have no business sounding as good as this. If it doesn’t quite scale the dizzy heights of ‘The Holy Bible’ or ‘Everything Must Go’, it certainly comes close and is, in many ways, the quintessential Manics album – the cathartic regeneration that the band really needed in order to become relevant again. It’s the triumphant comeback of the year. And it’s a pleasure to be able to review it without having to fear for our lives.

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Morrison, Van - Live at Montreux 1974/1980 20. Iron Maiden - Death on the Road 21. Rainbow - Live Between the Eyes/Final Cut 22. Blind Faith - Hyde Park 1969 23. Girl - Rare DVD Collection 24. Petty, Tom - Soundstage End of Year Album Lists: 2007 1. Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy [7 leaked tracks] 2. Rush - Snakes & Arrows 3. Down - III: Over & Under 4. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet 5. Hunter, Ian - Shrunken Heads 6. Status Quo - In Search of the Fourth Chord 7. Bonamassa, Joe - Sloe Gin 8. Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden 9. Saxon - Inner Sanctum 10. Machine Head - The Blackening 11. Whitestarr - Fillith Tillith 12. Lang, Jeff - Whatever Makes You Happy 13. Pig Irön - Paths of Glory... Lead But to the Grave 14.

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Gilmour, David - Remember That Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 23. Oasis - Lord Don’t Slow Me Down 24. Stereophonics - Rewind 25. Brothers of a Feather - Live at the Roxy Songs 1. A Thousand Stars - Monster Magnet 2. Aborigine - Ted Nugent 3. Balrog Boogie - Diablo Swing Orchestra 4. Battle Malady - Pig Irön 5. Beat Goes On - Pretty Things 6. Been There All the Time - Dinosaur Jr 7. Beginning of the End - Status Quo 8. Bella Kiss - John 5 9. Better - Guns N’ Roses 10. Bitchin’ - Donnas 11. Black Light - 25 Yard Screamer 12. Blues - Guns N’ Roses 13. Bye Bye Beautiful - Nightwish 14. Chinese Democracy - Guns N’ Roses 15. Clenching Fists of the Dissent - Machine Head 16. Cold Flame - Flesh for Lulu 17. Companions - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 18.

Cowboys Do More Dope - Rebel Meets Rebel 19. Electric Worry - Clutch 20. End is Begun - Three 21. Equally Destructive - After Forever 22. Fall Sound - Fall 39. I Don’t Even Like You - Big Linda 40. I Scream - Down 41. I’m Not Jesus - Apocalyptica 42. I’ve Got to Rock (To Stay Alive) - Saxon 43. Larger Bowl - Rush 44. Lift Rocks Today - PLOT 45. Lithium - Evanescence 46. Little Lover - Soulshake Express 47. Lonely Train - Black Stone Cherry 48. Long Time Dead - Waysted 49. Lost in the Congo - Doyle Bramhall 50. Motorville - Tinyfish 51. Naked - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 52. 99% - Mooney Suzuki 53. No Such Thing - Chris Cornell 54. Not Ready to Make Nice - Dixie Chicks 55. Nude - Radiohead 56.

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Song with a Mission - Sounds 80. Staring at the Rude Bois - Gallows 81. Stick with Me Baby - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 82. Suddenly Attacked - Big Linda 83. Summer of Love - John Fogerty 84. Teenagers - My Chemical Romance 85. That Kind of Man - The Heavy 86. That’s the Way (My Love Is) - Smashing Pumpkins 87. Three Minute Song - Grady 88. Time Will Cut You Down - Priestess 89. To Holmgard & Beyond - Turisas 90. Trouble - Skindred 91. Vagrant Stomp - Orange Goblin 92. Way Out of Here - Porcupine Tree 93. We Want it All - Crank County Daredevils 94. What I’ve Done - Linkin Park 95. When the World Was Round - Ian Hunter 96. Who Taught You to Like That - Sloan 97. Woman in the Window - Satellite Party 98. You Could Be Mine - Damone 99.

You Don’t Know What Love Is - White Stripes 100. Your Love Alone is Not Enough - Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers Discography at Discogs Manic Street Preachers Profile: Rock group formed in Blackwood, Wales in the late 1980s: James Dean Bradfield (lead guitar, vocals), Nicky Wire (sometimes goes by his real surname Jones - bass), Sean Moore (drums), Richey Edwards (rhythm guitar). The last named of these has been missing presumed dead since 1995 and the remaining members have continued as a trio. Though they are a rock group with a heavy guitar sound, they have also been the subject of many remixes by electronic artists. Sites: Manic Street Preachers on Apple Music To preview a song, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to buy and download music.

Biography Dressed in glam clothing, wearing heavy eyeliner, and shouting political rhetoric, the Manic Street Preachers emerged in 1991 from their hometown of Blackwood, Wales, as self-styled "Generation Terrorists." Fashioning themselves after the Clash and the Sex Pistols, the Manics were on a mission, intending to restore revolution to rock & roll at a time when Britain was dominated by trancey shoegazers and faceless, trippy acid house. Their self-consciously dangerous image, leftist leanings, crunching hard rock, and outsider status made them favorites of the British music press and helped them build a rabidly dedicated following. For much of the band's early career, it was impossible to separate the rhetoric from the music and even from the members themselves -- the group's image was forever associated with lyricist/guitarist Richey James carving the words "4 Real" into his arm during an early interview. As the British pop music climate shifted toward Brit-pop in the wake of Suede, the Manics didn't achieve fame, but they did have notoriety. Legions of followers emerged, including many bands that formed the core of the short-lived "new wave of new wave" movement.

But as the group climbed toward stardom, the story didn't get simpler -- it got weirder. James' behavior became increasingly bizarre, culminating on the group's harrowing 1994 album The Holy Bible. Early in 1995, James disappeared, leaving no trace of his whereabouts. The remaining trio carried on with 1996's Everything Must Go, the album that established them as superstars in England, yet that came at the expense of the arrogant, renegade gender-bending and revolutionary rhetoric that had earned them their initial fan base. It was a bizarre, unpredictable journey for a group that once proclaimed that all bands should break up after releasing one album. James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitar), Nicky Wire (born Nick Jones; bass), Sean Moore (drums), and Flicker (rhythm guitar) formed Betty Blue in 1986. Within two years' time, Flicker had left the band and the group had changed its name to the Manic Street Preachers.

In the summer of 1988, a fellow student at Swansea University, Richey James (born Richey Edwards), who had previously been the group's driver, joined the band as rhythm guitarist. They began recording demos, eventually releasing the single "Suicide Alley" in August. "Suicide Alley" boasted a cover replicating that of the Clash's first album, which indicated the sound of the group at the time -- equal parts punk and hard rock. A year after the single's release, NME gave it an enthusiastic review, citing James' press release -- "We are as far away from anything in the '80s as possible." Indeed, the Manics were one of the key bands of the early '90s, and their career didn't get rolling until 1991. The New Art Riot EP appeared in the summer of 1990, followed by a pair of defining singles -- "Motown Junk" and "You Love Us" -- in early 1991 on Heavenly Records. The singles and the Manics' incendiary live shows, where they wrote slogans on their shirts, created a strong buzz in the music press, which only escalated in May.

James gave an interview with Steve Lamacq for NME in which Lamacq questioned the group's authenticity; after an argument, James responded by carving the words "4 Real" on his arm. The incident became a sensation, attracting numerous magazine articles, as well as a major-label contract with Sony. Many observers interpreted the action as a simple stunt, but over the next few years it became clear that the self-mutilation was the first indication of James' mental instability. "Stay Beautiful" was the Manics' first release for Sony, and it climbed into the British Top 40 late in the summer of 1991, followed early in 1992 by a re-recorded "You Love Us," which peaked in the Top 20. By the time they released their much-hyped debut album, Generation Terrorists, in February 1992 -- a record the band claimed would outsell Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction -- they had already cultivated a large and devoted following, many of whom emulated their glammy appearance and read the same novels and philosophers the group name-dropped.

The Manics had been claiming that they would disband following the release of their debut, yet it became clear by the fall, when a non-LP cover of "Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)" became their first Top Ten hit, that they would continue performing. Nicky Wire and Richey James had become notorious for their banter throughout the British music press, and while it earned them countless articles, it also painted the group into a corner. Comparatively polished and mainstream compared to its predecessor, Gold Against the Soul, the group's second album, appeared in the summer of 1993 to mixed reviews. Shortly after the release of Gold Against the Soul, the Manics' support began to slide as the group began to splinter amidst internal tensions, many of them stemming from James. Nicky Wire ran into trouble over on-stage remarks about R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe dying of AIDS, but Richey James was in genuine trouble. Suffering from deepening alcoholism and anorexia, James entered prolonged bouts of depression, highlighted by incidents of self-mutilation -- most notoriously at a concert in Thailand, when he appeared with his chest slashed open by knives a fan gave him.

Early in 1994, he entered a private clinic, and the band had to perform a number of concerts as a trio. James' mental illness surfaced on the group's third album, The Holy Bible. Reportedly recorded in a red-light district in Wales, The Holy Bible was a bleak, disillusioned record that earned considerable critical acclaim upon its late-summer release in 1994. Although the Manics' critical reputation was restored and James was playing with the band, even giving numerous interviews with the press, all was not well. Prior to the American release of The Holy Bible and the band's ensuing tour, James checked out of his London hotel on February 1, 1995, drove to his Cardiff apartment, and disappeared, leaving behind his passport and credit cards. Within the week he was reported missing and his abandoned car was found on the Severen Bridge outside of Bristol, a spot notorious for suicides. By the summer, the police had presumed he was dead. Broken, but not beaten, the remaining Manics decided to carry on as a trio, working the remaining lyrics James left behind into songs. The Manic Street Preachers returned in December 1995 opening for the Stone Roses.

In May 1996, they released Everything Must Go, which was preceded by the number two single "A Design for Life." Their most direct and mature record to date, Everything Must Go was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and the Manics became major stars in England. Throughout 1996, the band toured constantly, and most U.K. music publications named Everything Must Go Album of the Year. Despite their growing success, several older fans expressed distress at the group's increasingly conservative image, yet that didn't prevent the album from going multi-platinum. Everything Must Go didn't just go multi-platinum -- it established the Manics as superstars throughout the world. Everywhere except America, that is. The album received a belated release in the U.S., appearing in August of 1996, and the group attempted an American tour, opening for Oasis. It should have led to increased exposure, but a blowup between the Gallaghers led to Oasis canceling the entire tour, leaving the Manics at square one. They returned to the U.K. and toured, receiving a number of awards at the end of the year.

They didn't deliver their much-anticipated follow-up, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, until August of 1998. The album was another blockbuster success in the U.K., Europe, and Asia, but it didn't receive a release in America, since the Manics were in the process of leaving Epic in the U.S. For a while, there was simply no interest in the Manics by American labels, but another multi-platinum album and numerous awards in Britain revived interest. The band signed with Virgin, which issued This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours in the U.S. during June 1999 -- nearly a year after its initial release. Know Your Enemy followed in 2001, although it was not well received, and the band moved to Sony for British distribution of 2004's Lifeblood. Both vocalist/guitarist James Dean Bradfield and bassist Nicky Wire followed this release with solo albums, and then reconvened in 2007 to record the edgier, punk-influenced Send Away the Tigers with producer Dave Eringa. After its release, the band quickly set to work on another album, using Richey James' abandoned lyrics as inspiration.

"All 13 songs on the new record feature lyrics left to us by Richey," the Manics wrote on their website in early 2009. "The brilliance and intelligence of the lyrics dictated that we had to finally use them." Titled Journal for Plague Lovers, the album was recorded on analog tape by veteran engineer Steve Albini and released that May. Postcards from a Young Man, the band's tenth studio album, followed in 2010. After releasing a compilation called National Treasures: The Complete Singles in the fall of 2011, the Manics released a super-deluxe 20th Anniversary edition of Generation Terrorists in 2012. Meanwhile, the band plugged away in the studio, working on a ludicrously ambitious project tentatively titled 70 Songs of Hatred and Failure. At one point they despaired of simply having written too much material, before hitting on the idea of releasing two very different albums.

The first, a folky, almost entirely acoustic, emotionally raw effort entitled Rewind the Film, appeared in the fall of 2013, and the second, the "spiky" and Krautrock-inspired Futurology, was slated for May 2014. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Top Albums Manic Street Preachers — Listen for free on Spotify Manic Street Preachers Play on Spotify Dressed in glam clothing, wearing heavy eyeliner, and shouting political rhetoric, the Manic Street Preachers emerged in 1991 from their hometown of Blackwood, Wales, as self-styled "Generation Terrorists." Fashioning themselves after the Clash and the Sex Pistols , the Manics were on a mission, intending to restore revolution to rock & roll at a time when Britain was dominated by trancey shoegazers and faceless, trippy acid house. Their self-consciously dangerous image, leftist leanings, crunching hard rock, and outsider status made them favorites of the British music press and helped them build a rabidly dedicated following.

For much of the band's early career, it was impossible to separate the rhetoric from the music and even from the members themselves -- the group's image was forever associated with lyricist/guitarist Richey James carving the words "4 Real" into his arm during an early interview. As the British pop music climate shifted toward Brit-pop in the wake of Suede , the Manics didn't achieve fame, but they did have notoriety. Legions of followers emerged, including many bands that formed the core of the short-lived "new wave of new wave" movement. But as the group climbed toward stardom, the story didn't get simpler -- it got weirder. James' behavior became increasingly bizarre, culminating on the group's harrowing 1994 album The Holy Bible. Early in 1995, James disappeared, leaving no trace of his whereabouts. The remaining trio carried on with 1996's Everything Must Go, the album that established them as superstars in England, yet that came at the expense of the arrogant, renegade gender-bending and revolutionary rhetoric that had earned them their initial fan base.

It was a bizarre, unpredictable journey for a group that once proclaimed that all bands should break up after releasing one album. James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitar), Nicky Wire (born Nick Jones ; bass), Sean Moore (drums), and Flicker (rhythm guitar) formed Betty Blue in 1986. Within two years' time, Flicker had left the band and the group had changed its name to the Manic Street Preachers. In the summer of 1988, a fellow student at Swansea University, Richey James (born Richey Edwards), who had previously been the group's driver, joined the band as rhythm guitarist. They began recording demos, eventually releasing the single "Suicide Alley" in August. "Suicide Alley" boasted a cover replicating that of the Clash 's first album, which indicated the sound of the group at the time -- equal parts punk and hard rock.

A year after the single's release, NME gave it an enthusiastic review, citing James' press release -- "We are as far away from anything in the '80s as possible." Indeed, the Manics were one of the key bands of the early '90s, and their career didn't get rolling until 1991. The New Art Riot EP appeared in the summer of 1990, followed by a pair of defining singles -- "Motown Junk" and "You Love Us" -- in early 1991 on Heavenly Records . The singles and the Manics' incendiary live shows, where they wrote slogans on their shirts, created a strong buzz in the music press, which only escalated in May. James gave an interview with Steve Lamacq for NME in which Lamacq questioned the group's authenticity; after an argument, James responded by carving the words "4 Real" on his arm. The incident became a sensation, attracting numerous magazine articles, as well as a major-label contract with Sony . Many observers interpreted the action as a simple stunt, but over the next few years it became clear that the self-mutilation was the first indication of James' mental instability.

"Stay Beautiful" was the Manics' first release for Sony , and it climbed into the British Top 40 late in the summer of 1991, followed early in 1992 by a re-recorded "You Love Us," which peaked in the Top 20. By the time they released their much-hyped debut album, Generation Terrorists, in February 1992 -- a record the band claimed would outsell Guns N' Roses ' Appetite for Destruction -- they had already cultivated a large and devoted following, many of whom emulated their glammy appearance and read the same novels and philosophers the group name-dropped. The Manics had been claiming that they would disband following the release of their debut, yet it became clear by the fall, when a non-LP cover of "Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)" became their first Top Ten hit, that they would continue performing. Nicky Wire and Richey James had become notorious for their banter throughout the British music press, and while it earned them countless articles, it also painted the group into a corner.

Comparatively polished and mainstream compared to its predecessor, Gold Against the Soul, the group's second album, appeared in the summer of 1993 to mixed reviews. Shortly after the release of Gold Against the Soul, the Manics' support began to slide as the group began to splinter amidst internal tensions, many of them stemming from James. Nicky Wire ran into trouble over on-stage remarks about R.E.M. 's Michael Stipe dying of AIDS, but Richey James was in genuine trouble. Suffering from deepening alcoholism and anorexia, James entered prolonged bouts of depression, highlighted by incidents of self-mutilation -- most notoriously at a concert in Thailand, when he appeared with his chest slashed open by knives a fan gave him. Early in 1994, he entered a private clinic, and the band had to perform a number of concerts as a trio. James' mental illness surfaced on the group's third album, The Holy Bible. Reportedly recorded in a red-light district in Wales, The Holy Bible was a bleak, disillusioned record that earned considerable critical acclaim upon its late-summer release in 1994.

Although the Manics' critical reputation was restored and James was playing with the band, even giving numerous interviews with the press, all was not well. Prior to the American release of The Holy Bible and the band's ensuing tour, James checked out of his London hotel on February 1, 1995, drove to his Cardiff apartment, and disappeared, leaving behind his passport and credit cards. Within the week he was reported missing and his abandoned car was found on the Severen Bridge outside of Bristol, a spot notorious for suicides. By the summer, the police had presumed he was dead. Broken, but not beaten, the remaining Manics decided to carry on as a trio, working the remaining lyrics James left behind into songs. The Manic Street Preachers returned in December 1995 opening for the Stone Roses . In May 1996, they released Everything Must Go, which was preceded by the number two single "A Design for Life." Their most direct and mature record to date, Everything Must Go was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and the Manics became major stars in England. Throughout 1996, the band toured constantly, and most U.K. music publications named Everything Must Go Album of the Year.

Despite their growing success, several older fans expressed distress at the group's increasingly conservative image, yet that didn't prevent the album from going multi-platinum. Everything Must Go didn't just go multi-platinum -- it established the Manics as superstars throughout the world. Everywhere except America, that is. The album received a belated release in the U.S., appearing in August of 1996, and the group attempted an American tour, opening for Oasis . It should have led to increased exposure, but a blowup between the Gallaghers led to Oasis canceling the entire tour, leaving the Manics at square one. They returned to the U.K. and toured, receiving a number of awards at the end of the year. They didn't deliver their much-anticipated follow-up, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, until August of 1998. The album was another blockbuster success in the U.K., Europe, and Asia, but it didn't receive a release in America, since the Manics were in the process of leaving Epic in the U.S. For a while, there was simply no interest in the Manics by American labels, but another multi-platinum album and numerous awards in Britain revived interest.

The band signed with Virgin , which issued This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours in the U.S. during June 1999 -- nearly a year after its initial release. Know Your Enemy followed in 2001, although it was not well received, and the band moved to Sony for British distribution of 2004's Lifeblood. Both vocalist/guitarist James Dean Bradfield and bassist Nicky Wire followed this release with solo albums, and then reconvened in 2007 to record the edgier, punk-influenced Send Away the Tigers with producer Dave Eringa. After its release, the band quickly set to work on another album, using Richey James' abandoned lyrics as inspiration. "All 13 songs on the new record feature lyrics left to us by Richey," the Manics wrote on their website in early 2009. "The brilliance and intelligence of the lyrics dictated that we had to finally use them." Titled Journal for Plague Lovers, the album was recorded on analog tape by veteran engineer Steve Albini and released that May. Postcards from a Young Man, the band's tenth studio album, followed in 2010.

After releasing a compilation called National Treasures: The Complete Singles in the fall of 2011, the Manics released a super-deluxe 20th Anniversary edition of Generation Terrorists in 2012. Meanwhile, the band plugged away in the studio, working on a ludicrously ambitious project tentatively titled 70 Songs of Hatred and Failure. At one point they despaired of simply having written too much material, before hitting on the idea of releasing two very different albums. The first, a folky, almost entirely acoustic, emotionally raw effort entitled Rewind the Film, appeared in the fall of 2013, and the second, the "spiky" and Krautrock-inspired Futurology, was slated for May 2014. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi Read More Show less

Question: Which band’s 2007 album is entitled ‘Send Away the Tigers’?
Answer: Manic Street Preachers